Weiner’s Campaign Manager Quits After Latest Revelations

[dixiegrrrrl]

In a new sign of tumult within Anthony D. Weiner’s embattled political operation, his campaign manager has quit, leaving his already skeletal team without a day-to-day leader.
According to two people told of the decision, the campaign manager, Danny Kedem, no longer wished to oversee Mr. Weiner’s bid for New York mayor after a week of bruising revelations about the candidate’s latest online conduct. The two people, who have close ties to the campaign, did not want to be identified because they were disclosing confidential conversations.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/nyregion/weiners-campaign-manager-quits.html?_r=0

[Agschmid]

1. Thus begins the downward spiral...

Well it actually began the minute he hit "send".

[mgcgulfcoast]

2. can larry flynt manage his campaign?

[LiberalFighter]

3. He should just go on vacation without any electronic communication.

[randysoames]

4. weiner fought hard for single payer, and now they are destroying him for it

Why is the corporate media (and their running dogs online) going after weiner tooth and nail?

Check out his wikipedia entry. Weiner, when he was in congress, was a MAJOR fighter for single payer healthcare. During the 2009 fight for healthcare, which was won by the corps when they stopped single payer, and passed obamacare instead of single payer, Weiner was right in the middle of it. He was fighting more than ANYONE ELSE for single payer.


from wikipedia:
During the health care reform debates of 2009, Weiner advocated for a bill called the United States National Health Care Act, which would have expanded Medicare to all Americans, regardless of age. He remarked that while 4% of Medicare funds go to overhead, private insurers put 30% of their customer's money into profits and overhead instead of into health care. In late July 2009, Weiner secured a full House floor vote for single payer health care in exchange for not amending America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 (AAHCA) in Committee mark-up with a single-payer plan. When a public health insurance option was being considered as part of America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, he said it would help towards reducing costs, and set up a website to push for the option. He attracted wide attention when described the Republican Party as "a wholly owned subsidiary of the insurance industry, teaming up with a small group of Democrats to try to protect that industry", and proclaimed in front of Congress in February 2010 that "every single Republican I have ever met in my entire life is a wholly owned subsidiary of the insurance industry."



And now the plutocrats, the corporations, and the media and the running dogs are trying to end his career once and for all.

Follow the money! Always....

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

6. So when will Elizabeth Warren, Alan Grayson, and Bernie Sanders....

...."sexts" be released? I mean clearly any day now, right?

You can be right on the issues and still be a complete moron when it comes to embarrassing yourself.

[randysoames]

7. it's not the fact that he sexted or texted or whatever, but...

...instead it is the venomous, vituperative, all-out, no holds barred way that the media has attacked him. THis is plainly war. And when I see the corporate media declare war on someone for sexting with consenting adults, I know something is up.

I will repeat that: it is not the sexts, but the media reaction, and that reaction that has been of such a high pitch and furious nature that it has mobilized the online running dogs, all of which are piling on weiner.

I look at weiner and see a politician, so rare, a congressman who stood up and fought for single payer, and yes, if sanders or one of the other few of his ilk had done this, they too would have been attacked in a similar fashion.

Again, once again, it is not the deed of sexting I am talking about--it is the way that the corporate media has gone after him like he is a child killer. Do I have to say that again?

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

8. The media actually hasn't gone after him like a child killer

They're just straight mocking him. As are most people. Why? 'Cause it's amazing to watch a guy pour gasoline on himself, light oneself on fire, and act like there is nothing to see here.

Also, the term "consenting adults" is loosely used here. Apparently Anthony doesn't waste time.

He has embarrassed himself, and our party once again. The tragedy here is a man with good ideas who cannot change the fact he's is a shameless narcissist and can't control himself.

[randysoames]

9. looks like we disagree ...again I stand alone, 1 in 1000

and I am proud to do it. Proud to support that rare politician who puts it all on the line. Proud to stand up against the drones of corporatism. Proud.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

17. Oh, there's no doubt he puts it all on the line....

....or online, as the case may be.

[genna]

18. You are exactly right.

The sexting is nauseatingly detailed.

That said, he didn't make his penis pics public. People can get into men who decide to create selfies.

My suspicion is if he was regular naked guy online, no one would care because two consenting adults engaged in behavior that other people might find indecent.

The fact that he is a public figure creating indecent text AND decides to stand against corporate propaganda makes his online behavior irredeemable.

I think the second part is what should determine whether he is mayor, not the indecent behavior.

If NYers are like Washingtonians they are probably going to decide the qualities they want in their mayors in ways that drive the media establishment crazy.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

12. You're kidding me, right?

He's destroyed himself.

This isn't payback for a vote he took two years ago -- this is the result of his own inability to control his behavior.

[Arkana]

13. Mmmm, no, pretty sure it's the whole "sending dick pics to women he's not married to"

thing that he's getting destroyed for. Especially since after resigning from Congress he went right back to doing it again.

There are other people of better character who will advocate for those things in Congress.

[geek tragedy]

15. Weiner fought for getting his face in front of cameras.

He pretended it was about single payer.

What did it take to get him to back down on single payer in the House? A promise to give him a speaking slot that would be seen on television.

[lunatica]

16. Evidently Weiner didn't fight hard, but instead did grandstanding that made it look like he did

Many of us fell for it, but when evidence and facts get included the entire thing is laid bare.

http://www.businessinsider.com/no-really-anthony-weiner-has-to-go-2013-7

Starting in paragraph six is a bit about a New York Times article about Weiner's grandstanding for the cameras.

[ChazInAz]

5. Sinking garbage scow.

As a party, we need to field better candidates than this. When even his spin-meister abandons him, it becomes obvious that this is one pol who needs to get into another line of business..preferably in another country.

[bklyncowgirl]

10. Frankly I miss the days when disgraced politicians had the decency to just go away.

There is something seriously wrong with this man.

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. Not just him refusing to go away.

Look at Sanford, and now Filner, and that DC mayor caught multiple times with a cocaine problem, all insisting they can still represent people,despite their lying to staff and public.
Almost as if there is a sense of entitlement to be a government official.

[KinMd]

14. Rachel Maddow said he lied to her face

I'm guessing he lied to his campaign manager, and I bet he lied to his wife.